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First permanent English settlement in the America's.
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First established legislature in the American Colonies.
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Mayflower set sail and landed on the coast of present day Cape Cod, Massachusetts. First settlement in New England.
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Was the first written framework of government established in what is now the United States.
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Adopted Biblical Covenant serving as foundation for the new settlement of modern day Hartford, WIndsor, and Wethersfield, Connecticut.
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Rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon that led to myriad causes in the colonies such as the increase of tobacco prices, an increasingly restricted market, and the rising prices from manufactured goods
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The overthrow of King James II of England by the Prince of Orange.
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Guaranteed toleration for all christians, decreed death to those who denied the divinity of Jesus.
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Series of lies and prosecutions of people falsely accused of necromancy in colonial Salem, Massachusetts.
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German immigrant who printed a publication that pointed out the actions of corrupt governor, William S. Cosby. Accused of Libel in 1733.
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Plan to create a unified government for the thirteen colonies.
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France's advancement past the Ohio river, upset Great Britain and caused a war over a span of seven years between France and the Iroquois indians of northern/central America.
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King George III issued that no person shall buy, trade, or negotiate with natives west of the Appalachian Mountains.
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English parliament issued a tax on every piece of paper the colonists purchased.
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Required all colonists to allow any British soldier to be able to stay in their home if they pleased.
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Parliament agreed to repeal the stamp act
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Murdering of 5 colonists by British regulars.
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East India Company started selling taxed tea to colonists.
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Political protest by the Sons of Liberty by dumping gallons of tea into the Boston Harbor.
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The first meeting of the delegates of the 12 of 13 colonies. Met to counter the parliaments coercive acts.
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Meeting of the 13 delegates shortly after the start of the Revolutionary War.
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Article adopted by the second continental congress, declared the freedom of the 13 colonies from Great Britain.
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Document signed by King George II and the representatives of the United States that ended the Revolutionary War.
